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Diary of Washington : from the first day of October, 1789, to the tenth day of March, 1790
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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42983
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Manuscripts
Autograph manuscript. Inscription "Genl Washington 1766" possibly in hand of Bushrod Washington. (2 pages)
HM 52708
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Manuscripts
A collection of 850 items from 1750 to 1814, which contains correspondence from the War Office; the material was accumulated by Sir George Yonge during his term of office as Secretary at War from 1782 to 1794, together with some material of his predecessors and successors in office. The collection includes routine correspondence, consisting of letters regarding promotions, commissions, retirements, accounts, desertions, and troop movements. The papers contain many references to past service of officers in America, the West Indies, India, Gibraltar and elsewhere on the continent. Officials represented, in addition to Yonge, are: William Wildman Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington; Charles Jenkinson; William Windham; Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 7th Bart.; and Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston.
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Typescript of Bean's 1855-1856 diary, which details interactions between Mormon missionaries at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and local Indians, including baptisms, trade, and some hostilities. Included are Bean's account of a journey from Las Vegas to California across the Mojave in October-November 1855 (which included stops in San Bernardino, Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Mission, and El Monte) and of travels between Las Vegas and the "Colorado Muddy" in 1856. Bean also references an encounter with the "murderers" of J.W. Gunnison, an Army captain killed in an Indian massacre in 1853; remarks on the camp visit of explorers Jules Remy and Julius Lucius Brenchley, who published "A Journey to Great Salt Lake City" in 1861; mentions his attendance of a performance of J.H. Martineau's "Missouri Persecutions;" and describes various interactions with Las Vegas Mission President William Bringhurst. The diary concludes with a series of prayers/poems dedicated to "The Wives and Families of the L.V. Missionaries," "The Pioneers of '47," and "Pres. B. Young and His Counselors," as well as the minutes of a meeting held "under the Bowery" at Las Vegas on June 24, 1856 and minutes of a celebration of the Fourth of July at Las Vegas, and a song entitled, "I Got Drunk Again."
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Includes approximately twenty-five pages of handwritten and typed journal entries for the period of March to October in 1942. Approximately thirty pages of memos and reports, originally classified "CONFIDENTIAL," but with "DECLASSIFIED" stamped on them. A six-page "History of USS Pope (DD 225)," prepared by the Division of Naval History. There is a report (12 pp. of text) by Captain Welford C. Blinn, USN, USS Pope, DD 225, titled "Java Sea Battle and Prison Experiences." Texts of two Press Releases from United States Pacific Fleet, one a radio script for Mutual Broadcasting Service (June 21, 1942) titled "Mutual's Overseas Report, the other a speech given by Admiral Chester Nimitz at the University of Hawaii, Oct. 21, 1942.
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